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Shane Culloty: 'It's one of the most widely heard Irish songs of the century, but most people won't know its name.
(Pic: Andy Omvik)

Meet the Irishman whose song has 1.1 billion plays on TikTok

Waltons RTÉ lyric fm Music for Schools Competition Returns!

A street view of Third Avenue, New York in 1915 close to Ellen O'Byrne Dewitt's music shop. Photo: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Meet the Leitrim woman who founded the Irish record industry

Watch Other Voices: Home with The Streets, Mahalia, FIZZ and more

Seoirse Bodley (Pic: Frances Marshall)

Death announced of composer Seóirse Bodley

The Comhaltas National Folk Orchestra of Ireland rock Céilí House

Conductor Kensho Wantanabe (Pic: Irina Belashov)

Something For The Weekend: Kensho Watanabe's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

The Beatles are back, with a little help from AI (Pic: Apple Corps)

Notes on AI in music: 'I'm not quite sure how to feel about it'

The Lauren Murphy Column

CMAT won the Choice Music Prize for Album Of The Year in 2023 (Pic: Ruth Medjber)

RTÉ Choice Music Prize announces 2024 return

RTÉ Choice Music Prize

The Wonder Of Blue - Joni Mitchell's classic album celebrated

The Scratch: a kind of headbanging session music. Credit: Faolán Carey

The Scratch: Celtic prog rock fusion, anyone?

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Hackney diamond geezers. Photo credit: Mark Seliger

Review: The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

The Mary Wallopers. Phtoo credit: Sorcha Frances Ryder

The Mary Wallopers back with more DIY diddley aye

Soda Blonde: ambition fulfilled

Soda Blonde dream bigger and bolder on new album

Róisín Murphy performs in concert at Castello Sforzesco, Milan last July

Róisín Murphy journeys to the outer reaches of weird

Olivia Rodrigo: more of the same - except harder, faster and funnier. Photo Credit: Larissa Hofmann

Olivia Rodrigo turns herself inside out on GUTS

Steely Dan: I hear you are singing a song of the past

A double whammy of classic Steely Dan albums

The bawdy, swaggering and frequently drunk

Mik Pyro is still on fire on his debut solo album

Shane O'Neill and Dave Long: Age and angst dominate but these songs mostly burst with hope and fond memory. Photo by Noel Farrell and Sabrina Colley

Shane O'Neill and Dave Long: And You Can't Dream That

Older, wiser, and wounded, Blur are wrapping themselves in the cotton wool of resigned contentment. Inertia and ennui has rarely sounded more blissful

Tesco disco!! Blur are back with The Ballad of Darren

Dua Lipa in the music video for Dance the Night Away

Barbie: The Album - pure and unashamedly brilliant pop

With Dave Grohl triple-jobbing on vocals, guitars, and drums, this collection of bruisers and ballads serves as a lighthouse for band and listener alike, with comfort and inspiration coursing through each song

Foo Fighters at life-affirming best on But Here We Are

Ed Sheeran: being a normal joe superstar has become a very hard job indeed. Picture credit: Annie Leibovitz

Ed Sheeran's Subtract: Love and loss minus zero